Nowadays, technology-intensive industries are permeated with partnerships between young/small ventures and large/established firms, where the ventures make technology commitments to the established firms. The partners involved in these partnerships are extremely asymmetric in a variety of...

The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods being sold in the west attests to China's industrial revolution, but this capitalist vision of 'utopia' sits uneasily with traditional Chinese values. It is also in conflict...

The successful diffusion of innovations in rapidly changing supply chain technological environments is essential to support operations and supply chain management functions. In this paper we conceptualize and develop a framework for research into the diffusion of innovations in organizations...

This paper is dedicated to find the appropriate approach to adopt a new “shareholder proposal rule” for the improvement of the corporate governance of Chinese public companies. This paper argues that the current Chinese shareholder proposal rule is primitive and not practical and it does not...

In this study, we use geographic proximity as a measure of private information and examine the informational role of social media in stock markets. Using a large sample of individual messages (tweets) collected from Twitter during the period July 2011–March 2012, we find that local Twitter...